Here’s the story: In a meeting of Republicans, in an effort to inspire party unity with regard to the debate over raising the debt ceiling, congressman Kevin McCarthy of California showed a clip from the film “The Town,” starring Ben Affleck.
Apparently, bank robber falls in love with his hostage or some such nonsense
In the clip, bank robber Ben Affleck says to his friend “I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later. And we’re going to hurt some people.” His friend just says “Whose car we gonna take?”
Of course, all of the people present found this extremely inspiring and motivational. Congressman Allen West of Florida stood up and said “I’ll drive the car!”
Where do I start? First of all, Republicans need to be more careful about choosing which music and film clips they use. Pretty much every serious artist hates Republicans (because being a serious artist requires a certain amount of both intelligence and compassion. Action adventure heroes often like Republicans) Anyway, Affleck seems to be among the good guys. He probably can’t sue (they didn’t use it as a campaign ad), but he said he thinks it’s weird and off message.
Second, this is probably the best free publicity Affleck could have got for the film, which I’d never heard of before. Fair enough. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 4 stars. From the clips I’ve seen it looks like a pretty exciting film. It’s about time. Affleck hasn’t had a decent film (My wife loved Jersey Girl but, seriously, it was crap, and Pearl Harbor was downright embarrassing) since Good Will Hunting and it’s rather amazing to me that he’s still working in Hollywood at all, but good luck to him.
Now, here’s the weird part. I saw the story on Huffington Post earlier today and they quoted the lines, as I have above. Half an hour ago I looked at the story again and they’d deleted the line “And we’re going to hurt some people.” If you look at the clip I’ve linked to above, Affleck clearly says “we’re going to hurt some people.”
So, why would they take that out? Huffington Post is often pointed at as an example of the liberal media, but I’m not so sure. They ran interference for Nancy Pelosi when she took impeachment off the table, and when Arianna Huffington ran for Governor of California, many years ago, she did so as a Republican. And now this. It’s a small thing, just one little line, but it’s significant. Republicans know that what they are doing will hurt people. They don’t object to that.
Show this clip to everyone you know. Because some media outlets won’t.
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